This meme has been making the rounds today and, not feeling much else in the way of inspiration, I figured I’d throw it up and and call it good.<\/p>\n
In 2003, The Big Read<\/a> (a BBC program) compiled a list of Britain’s 100 favorite books.\u00a0 The program reckoned that the average adult has read only 6 of the books on this list.<\/p>\n 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. (Having seen the movie does not count, of course!)<\/p>\n 1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen<\/u><\/strong> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *<\/p>\n So, 27 read.\u00a0 Not too bad, I suppose.\u00a0 The titles I italicized are books I currently have in my shelves, but haven’t read.\u00a0 That’s as good an indication of intent as any, I’d say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This meme has been making the rounds today and, not feeling much else in the way of inspiration, I figured I’d throw it up and and call it good. In 2003, The Big Read (a BBC program) compiled a list of Britain’s 100 favorite books.\u00a0 The program reckoned that the average adult has read only… Read More Hey, a post’s a post.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2) Italicize those you intend to read.
\n3) Underline the books you LOVE.<\/p>\n
\n2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien<\/em>
\n3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte<\/em>
\n4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling<\/strong> (the first three or four, anyway)
\n5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee<\/u><\/strong>
\n6 The Bible<\/em>
\n7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte<\/u><\/strong>
\n8 Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
\n9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
\n10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens<\/strong>
\n11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
\n12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
\n13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
\n14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
\n15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
\n16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien<\/em>
\n17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
\n18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger<\/strong>
\n19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
\n20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
\n21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell<\/u><\/strong>
\n22 The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/strong>
\n23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
\n24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
\n25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams<\/em>
\n26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
\n27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
\n28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck<\/em>
\n29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
\n30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame<\/em>
\n31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
\n32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens<\/em>
\n33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis<\/u><\/strong>
\n34 Emma – Jane Austen<\/em>
\n35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
\n36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis<\/u><\/strong>
\n37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini<\/strong>
\n38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
\n39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
\n40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne<\/em>
\n41 Animal Farm – George Orwell<\/strong>
\n42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown<\/strong>
\n43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garc\u00eda Marqu\u00e8z<\/u><\/strong>
\n44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving<\/em>
\n45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
\n46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
\n47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
\n48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood<\/strong>
\n49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding<\/strong>
\n50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
\n51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
\n52 Dune – Frank Herbert
\n53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
\n54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
\n55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
\n56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
\n57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
\n58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
\n59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
\n60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garc\u00eda Marqu\u00e8z<\/em>
\n61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck<\/u><\/strong>
\n62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
\n63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
\n64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
\n65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas<\/strong>
\n66 On the Road – Jack Kerouac<\/em>
\n67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
\n68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding<\/strong>
\n69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
\n70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
\n71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
\n72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
\n73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
\n74 Notes From a Small Island – Bill Bryson
\n75 Ulysses – James Joyce
\n76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath<\/strong>
\n77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
\n78 Germinal – Emile Zola<\/strong>
\n79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
\n80 Possession – AS Byatt
\n81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
\n82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
\n83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker<\/strong>
\n84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
\n85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert<\/strong>
\n86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
\n87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White<\/u><\/strong>
\n88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
\n89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
\n90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
\n91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad<\/strong>
\n92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
\n93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
\n94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
\n95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
\n96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
\n97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
\n98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare<\/strong>
\n99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory<\/u><\/strong>
\n100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo<\/p>\n